Population change - Demographic balance and crude rates at national level

In 2009, Sweden's population change increased by 21.1% compared to 2008, reaching 2.3.

The figure is above the EU-27 average of 0.6.

Sweden ranks 7th out of 16 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 91.7% (from 1.2 in 2004).

Source: Eurostat dataset demo_gind, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.